Cummings v. Franco

This is a suit in equity to enjoin the interference by the defendant with the exercise of rights in the nature of easements appurtenant to the plaintiffs’ land in the adjoining land of the defendant. The facts are reported by a master whose report has been confirmed. Both the plaintiffs’ and the defendant’s lands were formerly part of a single tract owned by Thomas W. Smith and Alice R. Smith, husband and wife. The tract extended from Riverside Avenue, a public highway in the town of Somerset, on the west to the Taunton River on the east. It was conveyed to the Smiths on November 20, 1913.…